Testing the Hurricane Evacuation Modeling Package (HEMP)

Details

• Creators:
  Bian, Ruijie “Rebecca”
• Corporate Creators:
  Louisiana Transportation Research Center
• Corporate Contributors:
  Louisiana. Department of Transportation and Development ; United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Evacuation
  • Forecasting
  • Hurricanes
  • Behavior
  • Simulation
  • Digital Twins
• Publication/ Report Number:
  FHWA/LA.25/704
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Louisiana ; United States
• Edition:
  Final Report August 2022 – December 2024
• Corporate Publisher:
  Louisiana Transportation Research Center
• Abstract:
  This project studied if and how behavioral models and traffic simulation frameworks created beforehand could be used to predict hurricane evacuation patterns in a new storm setting, with the anticipation of being able to conduct a real-time simulation in the future. Using publicly available data, this study first created synthetic populations by year for the study region of New Orleans, Louisiana. Findings from this process show that simulations of evacuation behavior can only be performed for storms that occurred between 2013 and two years prior to the current year. Additionally, it may not be appropriate to use population data from a different year to simulate evacuation behavior in a current year due to population migration.
• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  SPR: TT-Fed/TT-Reg - 5
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/82244/dot_82244_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 2.21 MB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:8ceabe83f18a024d1e3c9b2348c7883f983a39c9119685d5538c51950e4f0c12d3fd553279ec5b76041443d3dbba71488f603be3ac23b92db430de8a3fa3a94d